The officer began working for Warner Brothers several months after the preliminary investigation was completed. The same police officer is scheduled to appear as a witness in the forthcoming Pirate Bay trial, newspaper Sydsvenskan reports.

Defence lawyer Peter Althin said he would be looking into the matter.

“The question is how long this was under consideration. If it was under consideration at the time of the investigation then it is a scandal,” he told Sydsvenskan.

A press release issued today by The Pirate Bay alleges that the officer, Jim Keyzer, “isn’t the objective professional a police investigator should be” and “we can’t see it any other way than this being the reward for a [job] well done from the new employer of the police — the entertainment industry, says Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay.”

Jim Keyzer has had a leading role in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay as head of the preliminary investigation. In the upcoming trial he is expected to be a key witness and due to being a police investigator to have high credibility.

Keyzer was also heading an investigation where The Pirate Bay sued some of the mayor media corporations for data trespassing. That case was recently cancelled by him.

But….

New information reveals that the 39-year old investigator isn’t the objective professional a police investigator should be. Since March 16 this year, he is employed by Warner Bros, one of the plaintiffs in the prosecution against The Pirate Bay. Keyzer himself confirmed the information but refused to reveal what his position within the company is.

– It was yesterday that the blog, kopit.se, discovered that Jim had changed employer on his Facebook profile. The new employer was Warner Bros and we decided to call him up and ask about it. He confirmed that he is an employee there and we can’t see it in any other way than this being the reward for a work well done from the new employer of the police – the entertainment industry, says Peter Sunde of The Pirate Bay.

According to Peter Athlin, Sunde’s laywer, the consequence of the information could be that the investigation has to be remade.

– If the trial wasn’t already just a political theatre, this clearly shows that this is not a fair and balanced trial. The copyright industry stands no chance in an objective legal judgement and therefor have to cheat their way forward. Their legitimacy has hit rock bottom, says Magnus Eriksson of copyright critics Piratbyrån (Bureau for Piracy).

– This is a legal outrage. Talk about biased, Sunde continues. Keyzer is in charge of the investigation. No matter the reasons to switch employer, this investigation has not been fair. We have felt that the investigation has concentrated on trying to locate something to point out as wrong with The Pirate Bay instead of determining if the activities of the site are unlawful or not.

Monique Wadsted, laywer at MAQS law firm, representing Hollywood in the case, comments on the story this way: – I suppose this is Warner Bros way of expressing how they feel about the good work Jim Keyzer has done. But nothing inappropriate has been going on during the preliminary investigation.

How nice of Hollywood to come up with yet another unbiased voice to tell us the truth…About time to investigate the investigators!